Biden announces additional 500 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for poorer nations
The top US military officers from United States and Russia held six hours of talks in Helsinki on Wednesday, in the first face-to-face meeting between them since 2019 as both nations adjust to the US pullout and Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.
The United States on Wednesday promised to buy 500 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses to donate to other countries as it comes under increasing pressure to share its supply with the rest of the world.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on the United Nations to put the issue of reparation for victims of the slave trade on its agenda.
A surge in fraud attacks on consumers since the pandemic has become a 'national security threat' for Britain, requiring government-coordinated action across industries, banking lobby group UK Finance has warned.
China's northeastern city of Harbin, population 10 million, went into semi-shutdown after reporting new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases for the first time since early February.
The Taliban have made a request for speaking rights at the United Nations General Assembly and have nominated their Doha-based spokesperson Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's UN Ambassador.
New Zealand may not get back to having zero coronavirus cases in the community, the Director General of Health said on Thursday, as the country continues efforts to stamp out the infectious Delta variant of the virus.
Afghan rapper and activist, Sonita Alizadeh, fled her homeland with her family when it was last ruled by the Taliban more than two decades ago- when women could not work, had to cover their faces and girls were banned from school.
US President Joe Biden has told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that the world was an inflection point as he highlighted ending the COVID-19 pandemic and tackling climate change as key areas of focus while slamming the rise of authoritarianism
It was business as usual in Canada on Tuesday after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fell short of winning a majority in a tightly contested parliamentary election, leaving him once again dependent on opposition legislators to govern.
The General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly opens in New York on Tuesday with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expected to warn of a world and a planet in crisis.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals were on track to win the Canadian election, CBC News projected, but with results trickling in the network said it was too soon to say how strong a government they would form.
The United States will reopen in November to air travellers from 33 countries including China, India, Brazil and most of Europe who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the White House said on Monday, easing tough pandemic-related restrictions that started early last year.
Lava flowing from the Canary Islands' first volcanic eruption in 50 years has forced the evacuation of 5 500 people and destroyed at least 100 houses, authorities said.
The United States on Monday extended restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico through October 21 that bar non-essential travel such as tourism by foreigners despite Ottawa's decision to open its border to vaccinated Americans.
A student who opened fire at a university in Russia on Monday is alive and being treated in hospital, the Investigative Committee law enforcement agency said, contradicting an earlier statement from the university that he had been killed.
More than 300 Haitians were returned home on Sunday after the United States ejected them from Texas, leaving many of the would-be migrants demoralised and angry.
Russia's ruling United Russia party was on course to secure a comfortable victory in a three-day parliamentary election despite losing some ground to its opponents, early results and an exit poll showed on Sunday.
The rally in support of jailed Capitol rioters in Washington D.C. on Saturday ended up being a small gathering with little incident.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has not ruled out seeking re-election to parliament within the next two years, he told Reuters in an interview, undeterred by a corruption conviction that would block him from running. Najib’s graft-tainted party, the United Malays NationalOrganisation (UMNO), clinched the premiership last month after it was ousted from power […]
Some Afghan girls returned to primary schools with gender-segregated classes on Saturday, but older girls faced an anxious wait with no clarity over if and when they would be able to resume their studies at the secondary school level.
Hundreds of police officers will be on duty around the US Capitol on Saturday braced for a rally by supporters of the hundreds of people who breached the building on January 6 trying to overturn former President Donald Trump's election defeat.
France plunged into an unprecedented diplomatic crisis with the U.S. and Australia on Friday, after it pulled its ambassadors from both countries over a trilateral security deal between the two nations and Britain.
A drone strike in Kabul last month killed as many as 10 civilians, including seven children, the US military said on Friday, apologizing for what it called a "tragic mistake".
Washington's envoy to the United Nations has listed the COVID-19 pandemic, combating climate change and defending human rights as their top priorities during the high-level week of the General Assembly which begins on Monday in New York.
India broke its daily COVID-19 vaccination record on Friday by administering over 20 million doses of vaccines in a single day as states organised a special inoculation drive on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday.
The British government will on Friday consider easing England's COVID-19 rules for international travel, a late-season boost for airlines.
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi cautioned Britain on Friday that if the Northern Irish peace deal was destroyed then there would be no post-Brexit trade deal with the United States.
Russia goes to the polls on Friday to elect a new parliament in a three-day vote that the ruling United Russia party is expected to win despite a ratings slump after the biggest crackdown on the Kremlin's critics in years.
Public approval of US President Joe Biden has dropped to the lowest level of his presidency, with Americans appearing to be increasingly critical of his response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.
